How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube

A lot of attention gets spent on the violent end of modern culture: incels, white-fragility, MGTOWs, etc. Academics suggest that a lot of these come from feelings of a lost place in society.

I get the feeling that the emotional spectrum there is much broader than these individual issues imply: That many modern people who feel lonely, lost, or nostalgic for a time that never existed. I wonder if liking City Pop and these related genres implies some level of dissatisfaction with your life.

> came in 2017, when a video of the 1984 city pop song "Plastic Love" by Mariya Takeuchi became mind-bogglingly popular. Once a Japanese bargain-bin staple, people started buying it for $60 a pop in the United States.

The popularity of the song went as far as Warning Music reissuing an anniversary edition of the album in Japan and recording a music video for the song, both in 2019 [1] yet for some reason, they refuse to stream the song outside of Youtube.

I don't get it. Youtube pays the least for streams, and there is an obvious and known to Warner Music interest abroad ... so why not release it world wide on apple and spotify?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMmUXamntPI